a) dish – course
1. The second … was a roast turkey. 2. She put some tangerines and grapes on a silver … . 3. At a restaurant you look through the menu-card and make your choice of the … . 4. “He was so slow over the first … that he caused a block in the progress of the dinner”.
b) lettuce – salad
1. “He was eating … , taking a whole … leaf on his fork and absorbing it slowly, like a rabbit”.
c) veal – calf
1. The children played with the little … all day long. 2. I think I’ll have a little of the boiled .. , I’m not yet strong enough to eat more.
6. Match the list of cereals with statements a-f:
Wheat maize rye barley oats rice
a) Most porridge is made of it. It is also used to feed horses.
b) It is the staple diet in the East.
c) It provides corn on the cob, a lot of cornflour, and American whisky.
d) It is used a lot in brewing and soups and malt is made from it,
e) It is used to make white bread and most pasta.
7. Which are fresh-water fish and which are salt-water ones:
cod, pike, mackerel, herring, sardine, hake, trout, salmon, eel, carp, perch, plaice
8. Form nouns by adding the suffix –ful to the following. Explain the meaning of the nouns ending in –ful.
1) spoon, 2) glass, 3) plate, 4) cup, 5) saucer